Word: barriere
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...rocket plane, pilot Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to break the sound barrier...
...trained to come in at night," says Wolff. "Do they always? No. The white rhinos went on a five-day love feast, and the male gained 50 lbs. browsing on plants. And animals are so athletic. You think an animal can jump only 10 ft. and build a barrier to keep it from doing any harm. Then, just to prove how stupid you are, it'll jump 12 ft. So we adjust...
...children already born. Contraceptive information was so suppressed by clergy-influenced, physician-accepted laws that it was a criminal offense to send it through the mail. Yet the educated had access to such information and could use subterfuge to buy "French" products, which were really condoms and other barrier methods, and "feminine hygiene" products, which were really spermicides...
...many states, though, age is no barrier to punishment. Twenty-seven do not have age restrictions in prosecuting juveniles as adults (see chart). On Friday the Indiana Supreme Court upheld a department of corrections decision to house Donna Ratliff in an adult prison. At 14 she burned down her parents' house as retribution for alleged sexual abuse by "family members since the age of four." In 1996 a judge had recommended that Donna be sent to a juvenile facility...
...confined to the surface. Another critical variable is the shape of the ocean bottom. Surfing hot spots, or "breaks," are usually places where there is a sudden transition between deep water and shallow. Thus, as waves roll in, they are forced to leap up and over an underwater barrier. For example, "Killers"--the name of the break that Knox surfed at Todos Santos--channels big ocean swells across a deep canyon onto a submerged reef. Result: waves sweep in at heights of 10 to 20 ft., then rear up, like bucking broncos, to much greater heights. "A wave...